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Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by yaakov34 on Saturday January 18, 2014 @02:35PM (#7081931)
I tried running a Chromium session with no extensions for the stuff I want to be more secure (email/banking/etc.), while using Chrome for everything else, and this does work in a way. But I find that I tend to forget to switch to the other browser sometimes. A solution which said "don't run extensions on mail.google.com and online.my_bank.com" would be a lot more convenient.

The separate browser solution does protect from tracking, but with the security threats of today, like these malicious extensions with access to all your data, I've become desensitized to mere tracking.

Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw... by pasbesoin on Saturday January 18, 2014 @03:56PM (#7082212)
I changed the color scheme for one profile (although, that involved installing and trusting the color scheme; I got mine directly from Google's site as opposed to a third party site).

An extra cue, when the border background, tabs, etc. look different in one versus the other. Still hardly foolproof...